More kids are hitting the links.
According to the National Golf Foundation, 3.7 million young people, ages 6 thru 17, played golf on a course in 2024, an increase of close to 50 percent from five years earlier.
One of the all-time greats, Annika Sörenstam, is behind a new effort to help even more young people play the sport. Sörenstam has partnered with Bank of America for an initiative called « Golf With Us. »
« This initiative is close to my heart because it’s a way to help grow the game of golf, and we’re gonna do that by giving young kids the opportunity to make golf more affordable. So, by signing up and get(ting)…. a yearly membership, you get a chance to play on thousands of courses for five dollars or less. So, hoping that, when they have the access, they get a chance to try it and then fall in love with the sport, » Sörenstam says.
And Sörenstam says golf isn’t only about competing on the course. « If you’re a golfer, you need so much patience and, as you know, when you’re out in the world or just life in general, patience is really important, » she says.
Sörenstam also points to discipline, focus and determination, qualities she says are needed both in golf and in life outside the sport.
More information on « Golf With Us » is available at bofa.com/golfwithus.
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Publish date : 2025-04-21 18:37:00
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